The most uncomfortable thing one can say about the Unified Patent Court is not that it is becoming too German. It is that it may never have been built, and is still not quite treated, as a European…
JuVe reported in March 2026 that “Europe” would debate the redistribution of UPC cases. First I thought “whow”, then "what??", and then it turned on me that this headline is probably a slight…
A court of appeal is not a scoreboard, and it is worth saying so plainly at this stage of the debate on the Unified Patent Court. The discussion about how cases are distributed across the UPC’s…
This week, I have the pleasure of speaking in Amsterdam at C5’s 19th Annual Forum on Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation in Europe, in a panel devoted to running and defending preliminary injunctions…
"Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind." — Immanuel Kant (Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.) Recent reactions to my earlier…
Applications in the UPC for Requests to Produce Evidence under r.190 RoP are rare beasts. An Order following one such application was made on 14 April 2026 by the Brussels LD (full panel) in the case…
A ball may reach the line and still not cross it. Jurisdiction obeys the same logic.The order delivered on 13 March 2026 by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court in Adobe Inc, OpenAI LP &…
Lesson 4: The UPC will not apply the Problem-Solution-Approach as developed by the EPOThis is now abundantly clear. In November 2025, the first and the second panel of the CoA have agreed on a common…
Six months after the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") began its operations, we published an entry in this blog entitled The UPC is dead. Long live the UMC!; "UMC" standing for Unified Munich Court.The…
